Abdessamad Belhaj

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Structures, Figures and Functions


Competing authorities

IUMS is one of the many collective structures of Islamic law competing over authority in this field. To take the case of Saudi Arabia alone, there are various organisations which bring together Muslim jurists to produce rulings and transmit sharia; and thus, in Saudi Arabia we can encounter the Majmaʿ al-fiqh al-Islāmī (the Council of Islamic Law)1 in Jedda in which jurists from 57 countries are represented, al-Riʾāsa al-ʿāmma li-l-buḥūth wa-l-iftāʾ (the General Directorate of Research and Fatwa) composed of Saudi jurists,2 and the al-Majmaʿ al-fiqhī al-Islāmī in Mecca (an international organisation connected to the Muslim World League).3 Each of these bodies has both local and global anchoring, entertaining complex relations with the Saudi political establishment.

Authority in Contemporary Islam

Tartalomjegyzék


Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó – Ludovika Egyetemi Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 454 960 4

Authority is a key question in Islamic studies and beyond. This book examines the nature, figures, structures and functions of religious authority in contemporary Islamic ethics. It also discusses how Islamic authority and political power compete and/or cooperate in Muslim contexts and Europe. Moreover, it provides a coherent framework to understand authority as a moral foundation in relation to community, power, tradition and subversion. Various cases from Europe and the Muslim world are studied here to showcase the claims and practices of authority in their contexts. Despite its active role and resourcefulness in contemporary Islam, religious authority has to confront many limitations, including the dynamics of secularisation and individualisation. The author is a senior researcher at the Religion and Society Research Institute of the Eötvös József Research Centre at the University of Public Service (Budapest).

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/belhaj-authority-in-contemporary-islam//

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